[Durham] connecting to L2TP IPSec vpn

Tue Mar 13 11:38:48 UTC 2012

> [ ... ] Id like to connect my Debian dreamplug to a remote
> vpn. The remote vpn is running Openswan and xl2tpd. [ ... ]

OpenSWAN is just one of the implementations of IPSEC, and Debian
has StrongSWAN which is equivalent. Debian also has an "xl2tpd"
package.

There are a number of HOWTOs for StrongSWAN and L2TP, these two
seem plausible, and have Debian specific sections:

http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Fornewbies
https://peen.net/2009/04/linux-l2tpipsec-with-iphone-and-mac-osx-clients-2/